Teodor is an international merit scholar in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. His primary academic interests have long been Finance and Mathematics, and he was a laureate of the Romanian Economics Olympiad. He has extensive experience in education, especially in developing and teaching courses. He served as President of a committee on education reform during an extraordinary session of the Senate of Romania. He has given numerous talks on this subject and has also organized or chaired a variety of conferences involving academics, diplomats, and business leaders. In his free time, he enjoys reading and writing, especially poetry and essays; he even won a prize for poetry in the prestigious “Tinere Condeie” literary contest! He’s also interested in cars and, more than anything spent countless hours in horology museums across Switzerland. His dreams for the future include founding an alternative investments company, becoming an influential public speaker, and continuing to teach, as a professor of practice in a business school.